Warriors forward Draymond Green has been suspended one game without pay for stepping on the chest of Kings center Domantas Sabonis, according to a league press release (via Twitter). The suspension was based in part on Green’s history of unsportsmanlike acts, per the NBA.
The incident occurred during the fourth quarter of the Kings’ Game 2 victory on Monday. Sabonis underwent X-rays on his sternum after the game, which came back negative.
Green’s actions were in response to Sabonis grabbing and holding Green’s right ankle after falling to the floor. Green received a Flagrant Foul 2 and was ejected, and Sabonis was assessed a technical foul.
Shams Charania of The Athletic, who reported earlier in the day that a fine was more likely than a suspension for Green, tweets that most people around the Warriors and the situation believed on Tuesday that a fine was coming. However, Green’s history helped convince the NBA to dole out a one-game suspension instead.
The suspension for Thursday’s game makes the Warriors’ task much more difficult as they try to avoid a 3-0 deficit in the series. Jonathan Kuminga and Anthony Lamb figure to play more prominent roles and coach Steve Kerr could also explore smaller lineups.
I dunno about that. Ejection sure but also suspended for a playoff game is a bit much.
He is a repeat offender and doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to how intentional these kinds of things are. Also factor in his idiotic antics afterwards and he was really forcing the league’s hand.
Adam Silver being present at the game kinda adds to it lol. I can only imagine what Kerr is thinking while that is happening.
Fair for not receiving punishment for punching Poole?
And what are you talking about? NFL players have received in recent years far more severe punishment for the same act
I hope THIS is sarcasm…
The Poole incident was a team issue. And the NFL is a different league.
Your takes on this are sarcasm, I hope, because otherwise, yikes.
Your excuses would fly for a child, but I’m an adult, and no one ever can put hands on another without consequences. Its the Law, and no one is above it.
I’d honestly love to see a fight between Sabonis & Green, and that would solve this, if Green is a man, but I bet he just has these emotional outbursts, like many easily disrespectable men behave these days.
Bunch of non-self control having whining little babies. Green is anyway. Sabonis actually seems like a decent guy that is getting dirty from being around a punk like Green for the series.
Warriors are going home in the first round, so this will be over soon, and onto the next series.
If it was draymond grabbing Sabonis’s leg y’all would still be calling for his head. SMH. Obviously the nba is punishing the fact that the nba doesn’t want a dynasty and are mad at the warriors for draft well, paying their players and winning. When a team plays within the cba and finds a way to win then they change the rules and weaponize refs and control the media surrounding the situation to make sure it doesn’t happen again
So on the same play Sabonis is first grabbing Thomp[son shirt pulling him down and trying to injure him then grabs Green leg on the ground. So why isn’t Sabonis suspended too? Sabonis is a dirty player!
Grabbing a leg, and stepping on someone while on the ground after an aggressive play are 2 different issues.
1 is more severe than the other. Why should Sabonis be suspended for grabbing a leg? Did Green get hurt?
I guarantee there was some discomfort while being stepped on. Pretty sure that is the reason right there. Common sense
Lol yeah right dynasty warrior are garbage on road and for the refs it was both team and kings don’t get a lot of calls they should get but warriors get all the call unusually but this game 2 ref were bad for both team. And to be a dynasty team you have to win on the road which warrior can’t
That is funny since they were getting the home town calls in game 1 and 2. Now GSW will get the home town calls in game 3 and 4. The way Sabonis plays he should be fouled out by 3 quarter. They will be calling holds on Curry unlike first 2 games.
Sabonis acted like he got shot when he tried to box out Steph and they collided. Sabonis flops around like vlade in his prime. And it worked dray and loon were both in foul trouble all game because of his acting. Nba should not reward this bs because it makes the game unwatchable. Make the nba great again. It’s a physical game let it be physical
Then get rid of Green. Stepping on players is also low-character, lower than flopping.
90% or better flop, can’t believe this is an excuse for a clear assault on another player.
Especially when Gobert just got suspended for slugging a guy in the arm?
The NBA is putting out a crap product. The consistency, and workmanship suck badly.
Sabonis grabbing the leg was either defensive so he didn’t “accidentally” get kicked in the head after being knocked down by another Warrior or it was strategic because he didn’t want to give up an odd man advantage but it wasn’t cowardly. What is cowardly is the year after year dirty attacks by Draymond on opponents best players because he knows they won’t fight back because of the impact on their team if they are suspended. What is clear is that Draymond sees his dirty, crossing the line attacks as something that he has to do in order to win, which in itself is sad and speaks to the character of the team, the organization, and by the way you are mindlessly defending him, its fans.
So now twice in 2 games Sabonis is using WWE moves in taking doiwn warriors is OK with you? Grabbing Thompson shirt and trying to pull him downa player that came back from 2 major leg injuries is OK with you? Oh please you are 1005 bias pretending Sabonis was protecting himself.
Next time they need to press criminal charges. He is escalating his actions like a serial killer does. I should not be frightened when I watch basketball, the tension of these playoffs is already doing a number on my heart…I don’t need it stamped on
My lord dude I hope this is sarcasm
Please touch grass lil bozo
Drama much?
It’s gone from a stomp to a stamp. I’m stumped
Pretty sure Draymond was looking in my window last night.
Haha what kind of dumb analogy is that? Serial killers don’t “escalate” situations. The create them. It’s what makes them serial killers. Smh.
Warriors will still win the series !!!
Hahahaha
Yep. Can’t do it. Especially if his reasoning was Domas grabbing his leg, something Dray has a highlight reel of doing. In a playoff game, with Adam Silver in attendance, of course he’s suspended. Unfortunately this might be more of a plus to that Warriors roster than if he hadn’t been suspended. They seem to feed on stuff like this…
Alright the go ahead for all players to grab ankles with no consequences! New rules!
Sabonis was assessed a technical foul for the ankle grab, so you can’t say it was consequence free.
What a joke
On the same play he grabs Thompson and tries to pull him down but slip[ is why he was on the ground. Sabonis is a dirty player and should be suspended.
I mean he got stomped on that seems like a fair consequence
green’s stamp of approval.
What an idiot
Well…that might have cost the Warriors game 3.
Either that or the fact that they have been playing a pretty terrible brand of basketball all season.
Sounds just about right and fair.
This was a long time coming for Draymond. This and his many past dirty antics (called and uncalled) finally caught up with him – antagonizing road crowds doesn’t help at all either.
It just the NBA’s way to make sure that the Warriors don’t repeat…….an ejection was enough for the incident…….where was the ejection for Sabonnis for trying to pull Green down by grabbing his legs.
Quick everyone put on your tin foil hats
Lol, the NBA loves Steph. He’s the second most popular player in the league only to LeBron. They want him to go as far as he can because it’s good for ratings.
Lol
This is so rich coming from Warriors fans. Warriors have been the NBA darlings for almost a decade and Draymond gets away with more than any other player in the league. Y’all have won a bunch of championships and yet you’re crying when Draymond gets suspended for doing The Charleston on another guy’s chest and then going full WWE towards the crowd with the Commissioner present in the stands. Give me a break.
I think the Warriors are doing a good job making sure they don’t repeat all by themselves.
If the dubs were up 2-0 their fans would be shrugging and saying ‘that’s our draymond!’
No disrespect to real warriors fans who saw their team flounder for years not unlike the kings have for the last 20. Still true though
Kings fans should be ashamed of Sabonis who is a dirty player. 2 games in a row he is trying to inujure players. Before the ankle grab Sabonis was grabbing Thompson shirt and pulling him down is why he landed on the floor.
I think you watched a different video. Sabonis did not grabbed Thompson shirt and pulled him down. The maniac Draymond did a Stone Cold stomp as seen on the video is clear though. -_-
link to twitter.com
Go to any GSW board and they show the play from a different angle and he is trying to pull down Thompson from behind by grabbing the shirt. that is why he fell to the ground and as you watch he is faking he got pushed before grabbing Green’s leg. You are full of it defending Sabonis a dirty player
Rip warriors
Come on, Dray! Sabonis isn’t American, but he’s still white. Silver has a vested interest in him being portrayed as a playoff star. You do remember that Lebron guy, right. The association will always side on the Q rating.
You’re an idiot.
You do realize that he was born in Portland, which is still America last time I checked and therefore makes him American.
This is wack. Players shouldn’t get suspended in the playoffs, especially for nonsense. If youre going to suspend them, just don’t the following year. I’d rather see a 10 game suspension during the season than a 1 game suspension in the playoffs
So you want the Wild West? This ain’t hockey, kid.
No need to start crying because I asked for a little more physicality in a grown man sport. This ain’t a 3rd grade spelling bee, bubble boy
You do realize with how hard he stomped on his chest he could have killed him right?
This is the NBA basketball not the WWF.
Thanks for proving my point. Intentionally stomping on someones chest should not be allowed in the NBA
Sabonis isn’t innocent, and nobody should say so. Flailing around like he did wasn’t clean or smart. But he got a correct punishment in a flagrant 1 technical. I don’t see his actions as worse than when Randle elbowed Isaac Okoro in the face during a drive in Cavs-Knicks Game 1 because Okoro got too close, and he was (incorrectly) not even assessed a flagrant. On the other hand, Green escalated the situation and definitely did the more dangerous thing with a very deliberate stomp move. That wasn’t a landing foul; he ripped his leg free, moved his leg back over Sabonis, and then stepped on him. Watch it in slow-mo without rose-colored glasses. Even if he didn’t stomp down with full force, it’s not difficult to break someone’s ribs that way. Therefore, a greater punishment is both fair and sensible to me. One game is fair. Anything more than that would be overkill because no one was seriously injured, but intent like that was unnecessary.
Sabonis should be suspended too. In the same play he is trying to take down Thompson by grabbing back of his shirt but slips and falls down. Why is the NBA letting people flop. Suspend Sabonis!
So because he’s doing what almost every of player does by trying to get any advantage they can, whether that’s a tug of the shirt or hooking their arm or giving them a little push in the back, because he slips and alls, that warrants it being dirty and worthy of a suspension??? Are you actually listening to yourself?
He got a flagrant foul. This is not the WWF/WWE. Why would a basketball player do a Stone Cold stomp to a fallen player? Baby Green thinks his tough. We won’t be surprised if there are reports of him being a wife beater in the future.
link to twitter.com
Draymond should be in jail for what he did to Sabonis. Adam Silver is the worst commisioner I have ever seen. I garentee if the roles were reversed, Sabonis would be suspended for the rest of the playoffs
Stop the foolishness
Soft league
DirtyDre strikes again …….
In sports it’s not always the instigator. That gets caught. Most times it’s the one who retaliates. Who gets caught. Dre goes brain dead. And overdoes it Again. And now in the most important gm of this series. He takes himself out……. Pure Dre
Trying to compare someone grasping at an ankle vs pressing down with all your might foot on someone’s chest…just wow. You don’t care about right and wrong at that point, just your team winning.
One could trip someone, the other could tragically end a life. Happens in other sports all the time.
Remember these are not just players — they’re people. Now show a little respect, Warriors fans. Draymond will heal from a suspension. The impact on Sabonis could last a lifetime…
I would agree the 1 game suspension is the right move. Objectively looking at what Draymond did is he acted like an idiot TWICE within 5 minutes.., the foot Stomp and the crowd interaction.
He won’t be back with the Warriors next year.. thanks for the four rings but we’re going in another direction. Tired of carrying a guy with no reasonable control of his emotions on the basketball court.
He acts like he’s such a superior mind game tactician when he gets his 4th and 5th foul early and stays quiet, but then you remember he loses it completely in times like getting tangled with sabonis. Adios bro thanks for everything.
Finally the commissioner mans up. Long overdue. He’s been a repeat offender because he keeps getting away with it via just getting fined. He makes too much money to care about a fine. With the suspension, Now he’s hurting his team which is the point that needs to be made. His teammates should be upset with him and hold him accountable.
Another soft move by Silver…
Suspend him for the series…
Sounds like another person agreeing that jail time is the only option at this point
Green has done so much crap over the tears,I think he actually got off light.
True. Still, the league tends to be way too soft, so this was a somewhat pleasant surprise in that sense.
Only 1 game for stomping another players chest ?
What if Sabonis suffered the same heart issue as the football player on the Bills ?
Green is lucky he didn’t but he should be suspended for the rest of this series IMO.
He should be charged with assault and suspended for the playoffs.